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Delete your old tweets
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""" | |
Delete your old tweets (by old I mean all except latest 100) | |
without removing favorites of your own tweets and DM. | |
1/ Install python-twitter: http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/ as ptwitter | |
2/ Patch it with http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=60 | |
3/ Populates USERNAME and PASSWORD | |
Note that you're limited to 150 calls to the API per hour and that you can't | |
retrieve more than the 3200 latest tweets, it means that even if you relaunch | |
the script a lot of times you'll be screwed if you've got more that | |
3200 favorites of your own tweets. | |
Thanks to @Pierce_D and @brutasse, I'll rewrite the end of the script | |
given those recent info. | |
""" | |
import time | |
from sets import Set | |
from ptwitter import twitter | |
USERNAME = 'foo' | |
PASSWORD = 'bar' | |
api = twitter.Api(username=USERNAME, password=PASSWORD) | |
public_api = twitter.Api() | |
## retrieve all favs | |
def get_favorites_ids(user): | |
""" | |
Retrieve all favorites ids for the given user. | |
""" | |
favorites_ids = [] | |
favs_len = 0 | |
for i in range(100): | |
favorites_ids += [status.id for status in public_api.GetFavorites(user=user, page=i)] | |
print i, favorites_ids, len(favorites_ids) | |
if favs_len == len(favorites_ids): | |
break | |
else: | |
favs_len = len(favorites_ids) | |
# wait a bit, throttled api | |
time.sleep(1) | |
return favorites_ids | |
favorites_ids = get_favorites_ids(user=USERNAME) | |
# You can cache the result if you plan multiple launches | |
#favorites_ids = ['result of get_favorites_ids'] | |
# retrieve tweets to delete | |
def get_all_tweets_ids(user): | |
""" | |
Retrieve all tweets ids for a given user, except the latest 100 (first page). | |
""" | |
tweets_ids = [] | |
tweets_len = 0 | |
for i in range(9, 18): | |
tweets_ids += [status.id for status in public_api.GetUserTimeline(screen_name=user, page=i+1, count=100)] | |
print i, tweets_ids, len(tweets_ids) | |
if tweets_len == len(tweets_ids): | |
break | |
else: | |
tweets_len = len(tweets_ids) | |
# wait a bit, throttled api | |
time.sleep(1) | |
return tweets_ids | |
tweets_ids = get_all_tweets_ids(USERNAME) | |
# cache | |
#tweets_ids = ['result of get_all_tweets_ids'] | |
# because twitter api is unstable, really | |
tweets_already_done = ['printed ids deleted'] | |
tweets_todelete_ids = list(Set(tweets_ids)-Set(favorites_ids)-Set(tweets_already_done)) | |
print len(tweets_todelete_ids) | |
# delete tweets | |
for tweet_id in tweets_todelete_ids[::-1]: | |
# verify | |
#print public_api.GetStatus(tweet_id).text | |
# delete | |
status = api.DestroyStatus(tweet_id) | |
print tweet_id | |
# wait a bit, throttled api | |
time.sleep(1) |
You're absolutely right :/
To link threads :) Python wrapper using OAuth http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/
Checks https://github.com/olivierthereaux/oldtweets for a maintained version of the script.
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starting from June, 30th, you won't be able to log into the Twitter API this way. You'll have to use OAuth.
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/OAuth-FAQ